[Radiance-general] rpiece error

[Greg Ward]

Hi Rob,

Thomas is referring to the fact that filenames on the default OS X  
filesystem are not case-sensitive, so "Foo.dat" is the same as  
"fOo.DaT".  If you create the former, you can refer to it as the  
latter.  It will still show up with the case you created it with, but  
the system silently ignores case when you refer to it.  You can't have  
both "Foo.dat" and "fOo.dat" in the same directory -- creating the  
latter would overwrite the former.

This has nothing to do with what goes into a bash script, or how  
rpiece gets its options.  Only on older Windows systems is case  
ignored in the command line itself.  I don't know when that stopped  
being true, but I don't think that's true any longer.

I am as puzzled by the behavior you're seeing as everyone else.   
Without having all your files and scripts, though, it's pretty  
difficult to reproduce.

Cheers,
-Greg

> From: "Guglielmetti, Robert" <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov>
> Date: March 5, 2010 6:25:02 AM PST
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I did specify a syncfile. Sorry I guess I left that out in my  
> summary. There is a -F (syncfile) in the args too. The syncfile was  
> simply created at the bash prompt with "echo 1 8 > syncfile", so it  
> should not have any character or line ending issues. I will try  
> leaving it all out there on the command line when I get in to the  
> office today.
>
> Thomas you mention that OSX is not case sensitive by default? I have  
> never seen this behavior. How does one ensure that it is behaving in  
> a case sensitive manner? Case insensitivity is kind of a problem  
> with rpiece since there are -x and -X, -y and -Y options that are  
> important!
> ________________________________________
> From: radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org [radiance-general-bounces at radiance-online.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Thomas Bleicher [tbleicher at googlemail.com]
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Guglielmetti, Robert
> <Robert.Guglielmetti at nrel.gov> wrote:
>> Anyone seen this before? I issue a simple rpiece command, like:
>>
>> Rpiece @args &
>>
>> The args file has some basic stuff in it:
>>
>> -x 1024 -y 1024 -vf foo.vf -o foo.hdr foo.oct
>
> You have not specified either the "-X -Y" resolution or an existing
> syncfile that rpiece should use to coordinate the processes. Rpiece
> should treat that as a command error but apparently it doesn't.
>
> Anyway, add either one of the options to tell rpiece how to chop up
> the image and you should be fine.
>
> Thomas